Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

It is through the institution of families that children are brought up in an orderly manner

Water is intrinsically linked to the mystery and excitement of discovering new worlds.

Learn to do thy part and leave the rest to Heaven.

YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire past of age.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Buddhism in one long prayer.

Alex probably brings his dates sharp knives as gifts, in case she'll need one when she's out on a date with him.

Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.